[Plib-users] Segmentation Fault - FG.9.8 Fedora Core 3 plib-1.8.4

[Doug W. <Dou...@sh...>]

I'm trying to run FlightGear.9.8 and the joystick initialization crashes and causes a
segmentation fault on my machine.  I have a Microsoft Sidewinder Force
Feedback 2 joystick, FG.9.8. on Fedora Core 3.  athlon cpu and ati
radeon AIW video card and plib-1.8.4

I have isolated the problem to this code in file plib/src/js/jsLinux.cxx

  // Remove any deadband value already done in the kernel.
  // Since we have our own deadband management this is save to do so.

  struct js_corr corr [ _JS_MAX_AXES ];
  ioctl ( os->fd, JSIOCGCORR, corr );
  for ( int i = 0; i < num_axes ; ++i ) {
    if ( corr[ i ] . type == JS_CORR_BROKEN ) {
      int nodeadband = ( corr[ i ] . coef[ 0 ] + corr[ i ] . coef
[ 1 ] ) / 2 ;
      corr[ i ] . coef[ 0 ] = nodeadband ;
      corr[ i ] . coef[ 1 ] = nodeadband ;
    }
  }
  ioctl ( os->fd, JSIOCSCORR, corr );

The Segmentation Fault is caused by the first ioctl() call.  It
overwrites more than the struct js_corr structure and corrupts the THIS
pointer.  then the next line:

     for ( int i =0; i< num_axes;++i)

generates a Segmentation Fault when it tries to access  num_axes because
the THIS pointer is now pointing at 0x0010000 memory address.

I have been unable to figure out how to fix it but if someone can give
me some help I'm sure we can figure it out.  I have commented out this 
code and FlightGear compiles and runs without trouble.

Thanks,
Doug.